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Invocation of My Demon Brother
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Wikipedia article
'Invocation of My Demon Brother' (1969) is an 11-minute film directed, edited, and photographed by Kenneth Anger. The music was composed by Mick Jagger playing a Moog synthesizer. It was filmed in San Francisco at the Straight Theater on Haight Street and the William Westerfeld House (the former "Russian Embassy" nightclub).
According to Anger, the film was assembled from scraps of the first version of 'Lucifer Rising'. It includes clips of the cast smoking out of a skull, and the publicly filmed Satanic funeral ceremony for a pet cat.
'Invocation of My Demon Brother' won the Tenth Annual 'Film Culture' award.
Author Gary Lachman claims that the film "inaugurat[ed] the midnight movie cult at the Elgin Theatre."Lachman, Gary (2001). 'Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius' (New York: Disinformation). , p. 305.
Cast
* Speed Hacker as Wand bearer
* Kenneth Anger as Magus
* Lenore Kandel as Deaconess
* Bill "Sweet William" Fritsch as Deacon
* Van Leuven as Acolyte
* Harvey Bialy and Timotha Doane (formerly Bialy) as the Brother and Sister of the Rainbow
* Anton LaVey as His Satanic Majesty
* Bobby Beausoleil as Lucifer
* Mick Jagger as Himself
See also
* List of American films of 1969
References
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